Peaceful Penetration

THE year 1904 will be chiefly remarkable in African history for three things: the conclusion of the Anglo-French Agreement, the wide-spread development of the cotton-growing movement, and the considerable influx of European settlers into regions lying between the Tropics, which have only recently come to be regarded as suitable for white colonisation. It was in connection with the first of these events, and referring more especially to Morocco, that the pleasant-sounding phrase "peaceful penetration " became popular. But there is an older motto which has left its mark on Africa, and one which must continue to claim the attention of those who would avoid the disastrous strife which so often attends the earlier stages of European enterprise in the Dark Continent-" Nothing for nothing, and not much for sixpence

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